Chuck Palahniuk. Ghosts (№ 391)

Agent Talker says:
Americans know how to work like no other in the world.
And also to learn and compete.
But when it comes to relaxing - we got trouble.
What with holiday profits?! With him, nothing will.
At the Olympics no medals for the unhurried.
For the first place in the world championship of laziness will not give positive recommendations.
The agent says, under the buzzing of the autofocus:
We well know how to win and lose - they can't take away.
To work hard until you drop - that we can.
But we are not able to calm down.
To hammer on all and to enjoy a well-deserved rest.
Instead, he says to himself, - we have marijuana and television.
Beer and valium.
And medical insurance.
Which we replenish as needed.